Min's B to B articles from April 2006

Min's B to B archives from April 2006

Digital Media: Total Online Ad $$$ Could Top $18B By 2007: eMarketer.
April 3, 2006... It's easy to see why recent digital media events, sponsored on successive days by min's b2b progenitor Media Industry Newsletter and American Business Media, respectively, both played to packed houses even as budgets remain tight: Because...

Major B2B Group Publishers Year-End 2005 Ad Pages (Part 6):.
April 3, 2006... We are rumbling into the home stretch of our semi-annual Group Publishers project, with Part 6 presented here, to be followed (at last!) next week by the conclusion. The headline company in this group is Source Media, the renamed product of...

B2B Boxscores (January 2006/2005): Food Fetish: Category Overhaul Yields Three Distinct Market Segments of Vast Field.
April 3, 2006... Readers of this newsletter who may feel their voice doesn't count for much should think again as we premiere our new and improved 2006 Foodservice Boxscores. Prompted in large measure by reader feedback, we've turned this big, busy,...

B2B Boxscores (January 2006): 1) Bigger & Better Bevy of Building Books Starts Year With Baleful New Home Sales News.
April 3, 2006... As with many of our 2006 Boxscore sectors, the Building/Construction group charted below includes a number of newcomers (nine, to be precise). These are not new magazines, but new entries (courtesy of IMS/The Auditor) into our group set to...

B2B Boxscores (January 2006): 2) Nothing's Automatic in Automotive for 2006.
April 3, 2006... Too soon to tell what impact mounting financial troubles at General Motors, Ford Motors, Delphi, and elsewhere will have on automotive advertising, but it probably won't be good. For starters, the new year began with a -6.35% drop in ad...

B2B People on the Move.
April 3, 2006... McGraw-Hill is shooting for the stars. Thursday (March 30), it named onetime astronaut Terence "Tom" Henricks as president/CEO of its Aerospace & Defense group. He will succeed longtime occupant Ken Gazzola, who retires at yearend. Henricks,...

B2B Stockwatch: First Quarter Trading Wraps With Two-Thirds of Field in YTD Up Column.
April 3, 2006... It's still a little early to get excited, but one quarter through the year, we find 66% of our stocks--six out of nine--up on year-to-date trading. Even more promising, four of those six are up in double figures. One of the big gainers,...

VNU Investor Ads Tout Wonders of Disputed Buyout Offer.
April 10, 2006... When it comes to advertising, magazine publishers frequently do not practice what they preach. Their sales directors will use all sorts of powers of persuasion to convince their own prospects that a comprehensive print program in their titles...

Slicing & Dicing: Top February YTD Titles (sorted by total ad pages with plus %).(advertising expenditures for newspapers)(Statistical data)
April 10, 2006... Find out if January was just a fluke or if some patterns are beginning to emerge. New ad-page counts are in from IMS/The Auditor, so look for February B2B Boxscores beginning in next week's issue. Title 2006 2005...

B2B Group Publishers (2005 vs. 2004)--Conclusion.
April 10, 2006... We've come to the end of the line, publishing aficionados: The conclusion of our 2005 Group Publishers Review. So far, there have been some nice success stories in these charts, but it certainly isn't always a pretty picture. That's been the...

b2b Boxscores (January): Banking/Finance Finishes January in Super-Volatility Mode.
April 10, 2006... Up to now, the revisions we've made to our 2006 Boxscore groups have mainly been minor touch-up work, adding some titles here, removing one or two there. But our new and improved Banking/Finance category is the product of major surgery. With...

Ex-"Inc." Editor George Gendron Wants to Make Football Players Business Heroes.(Brief article)
April 10, 2006... Gendron seemingly left the magazine business in September 2002, when he ended a 20-year stint at the Inc. helm to teach entrepreneurship at Clark University (Worcester, Mass.). But on the side, Gendron entered into an athletic-consulting...

B2B Boxscores (January 2006): Boxscore Redux in Travel, Engineering Fields.
April 10, 2006... When you're tracking as many magazines as we follow in our monthly Boxscores, regular updates are a tool of the trade. And computer glitches are an occupational hazard. We usually wait until the next month's charts to make our revisions, but...

M&A Monitor: PE Strikes Again in Helmers Buy.(private equity acquisitions)(Brief article)
April 10, 2006... Another private equity-backed company has made a move in B2B. Retail Systems Alert Group, with funding from Proximus, recently acquired the Supply Chain Group from Helmers Publishing. No terms were disclosed. The package includes the monthly...

'06 M&A Accelerates Its Fast Start in Busy February Action.(Alliance Data Systems acquires ICOM, Inc.)(HCPro Inc. acquires HealthNet Systems Inc.)(LRP Publications acquires Unicomm L.L.C.)
April 10, 2006... First-quarter media mergers and acquisitions activity set an absolutely torrid pace, according to data just released from media financial advisor Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (and which will be fully charted in an up- coming issue). A...

M&A Monitor: Neal Vitale Is Back in the B2B Fray Via 1105 Media's Dual 101/Stevens Buy.(Company overview)
April 17, 2006... The onetime Variety president/CEO is getting back to his B2B roots as lead man in a new private-equi-ty-backed entity called 1105 Media that last week got itself on the map in a hurry with the more or less simultaneous purchases of...

M&A Research: Deal Appeal Boosts Q1 Media M&A Tally to $14.6B, But B2B Lags Far Behind.
April 17, 2006... At this time last year (min's b2b, 4/11/05), media investment banker Jordan Edmiston Group, Inc. was celebrating a first quarter of M&A activity that had produced deals totaling nearly $9.6B, a mouth-watering 132.4% gain over the...

Steve Smith on New Media Boxscores (January 2006): The Big Rebuild Gets Underway After Holiday Lull.
April 17, 2006... Coming off of tough year-end Web traffic declines in December, many business information destinations got their groove back in January, driven by seasonal spikes along with the usual post-holiday return to business-as-usual. Hanley Woods'...

Boxscores (February 2006): Early Forward Momentum Eases But Continues In Developer/Tech Sector.
April 17, 2006... After the tech bubble burst a few years back, it probably seemed at times like the sky was falling in the busy Developer/Tech sector. Sometimes it was, but things also may not have always been as bad as they seemed. For perspective, it's...

B2B Boxscores (February 2006): Despite Troubles Galore in U.S. Car Market, Auto titles Surge Forward.
April 17, 2006... AUTOMOTIVE AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January - February 2006/2005) Ad Pages Ad Pages PUBLICATIONS YTD 2006 YTD 2005 1 Aftermarket Business NEW...

min, Et Al., Will Lift Lid On Sales Leaders Picks at May 17 Big Apple Do.
April 17, 2006... Next month, Media Industry Newsletter and its sister titles (including min's b2b) will honor the sophomore class of Sales Executives of the Year, saluting the consumer and b2b magazine sales overachievers who've put their clients' needs...

B2B People on the Move.
April 17, 2006... John Micklethwait, The Economist's U.S. editor with 19 years at the magazine, was recently promoted to editor. Predecessor Bill Emmott, who took the reins in 1993, stepped down to write full-time. British-born Micklethwait thus becomes the...

B2B Stockwatch.
April 17, 2006... Based on Thursday's Market Close (4/13/06) Company Symbol Close 1 Week % Chg. YTD %Chg Dow Jones & Co. DJ 38.51 2.39% 11.33% Elsevier N.V. ENL 28.48 -1.18% 1.93% JupiterMedia Corp....

M&A Monitor: Elsevier Health Sciences Buys Into the Gold Standard.(Gold Standard Inc.)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... Healthcare publishing giant Elsevier on Wednesday (April 19) bolstered its prescription drug market portfolio considerably with the acquisition of Gold Standard, Inc., which develops and markets online clinical drug information, products,...

BIN Spin Twin Bill (January/February): Some Pain, Little Gain.
April 24, 2006... If modesty is considered a virtue, the two opening Business Information Network reports for 2006 are very virtuous. That's because advertising revenue among business publications began 2006 at a decidedly modest pace, with the BIN reports...

B2B Boxscores (February 2006): Building Gains Slow As More Market Warning Signs Emerge.
April 24, 2006... More negative business news is emerging in the housing and building markets, including fewer new building permit applications and longer selling times in some markets. Two years ago, The New York Times said the housing bubble was bursting....

B2B Boxscores (February 2006): Healthcare Lags, But Good February Puts Rx Back on Fast Track.
April 24, 2006... It's getting hard to gauge healthcare. It is taking up an ever greater share of the domestic product, everyone's worried about it, and service providers are competing harder than ever for the business. And yet a review of February results in...

At Conde Nast, DNR Columnist Stan Gellers Celebrates 50 Years of "Stan & Deliver".(Daily News Record)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... He is to menswear reporting (Conde Nast [via Fairchild]-owned DNR being a lead trade weekly) what Liz Smith is to gossip: an institution. Incredibly, Gellers has been associated with DNR--the contemporary version of Daily News Record (est....

B2B Boxscores (February 2006): Food for Thought: Will Restaurant Sales Dip Hit Foodservice Titles Where It Hurts?
April 24, 2006... It is probably too soon to know whether there's a connection, but first- quarter reports of declining sales at several important family-dining restaurant chains aren't much different from the February ad-sales picture in the...

Musings With Hughes: Today's Challenges for Editors Shape Tomorrow's Business Media.
April 24, 2006... by Gordon T. Hughes II, President/CEO, American Business Media The digital age has broadened media in untold ways, and today's editors carry a burden their predecessors could never have fathomed. Digital media has broadened the audience;...

M&A Research: March Action Keeps Fast-Stepping At Busy Clip.(Company overview)
April 24, 2006... Data services are becoming more prominent in the B2B M&A picture, as seen in Hearst's new stake in Fitch among the transactions in this March recap prepared for us by dealmaker Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. And magazines still draw the...